Detroit would control the rest of the second quarter. Glenn Presnell would hit a yard field goal to put the Lions up three points. Gutowsky would find the end zone again on a one-yard rushing touchdown.
The Lions would take a lead going into halftime. The Bears would open the second half with a yard field goal from Jack Manders. Manders would strike again for the Bears by hitting a yard field goal to pull the Bears within three points of the Lions.
The fourth quarter would be controlled by Chicago. The Bears would shut out the Detroit Lions in the second half. Chicago would go up by three points and take home the victory over the Lions, The Chicago Bears would engrave their names in the NFL record book twice by winning the first game on Thanksgiving Day and playing in the first game on Thanksgiving Day.
New User posted their first comment. Log in. NFL Feature. Chicago Bears. Modified 25 Nov Feature. Also Read Article Continues below. The same year that Canton suspended their operations in , the Ohio League stopped holding Thanksgiving Day games. This was also the inaugural year of the National Football League.
Jim Thorpe was named the first league president and was a coach and player for the Canton Bulldogs. In that first Thanksgiving Day game, the Akron Pros won and would finish the season to claim the league title. However, two years later it would be renamed the National Football League.
The Tigers never actually made it to the first season and withdrew before ever playing a game in the NFL. Out of the original 11 teams, only two are still around today. Chicago lost the game in what ended up being their only loss of the season.
The Buffalo All-Americans finished the season with the best record in the league Just behind them were the Chicago Staleys, with only the one loss they had suffered at the hands of the All-Americans on Thanksgiving. They agreed to the game, but with the caveat that it would be considered an exhibition game. After a victory , with both teams now having one loss and the Staleys holding the tiebreaker advantage, Halas decided to declare his team the league champions.
It worked, and the Staleys were officially named the champions for the season. This tiebreaker logic remained in the NFL until They would play each other every year from The following year would introduce the Detroit Lions as a Thanksgiving staple.
Richards, who had just purchased the Portsmouth Spartans OH and moved them to Detroit, was struggling to attract fans to his games. The stadium was packed, and a Thanksgiving tradition was born. Another tradition was also born that day as the Lions lost to the Chicago Bears. The official attendance for the game was 25, Since then, the Lions have played on Thanksgiving every year since , with the only exception being from to when the United States was fighting in World War II.
Team owner George A. Richards was also a pioneer in early radio broadcasting in the s. Because of this, Richards was able to get his Lions game on 94 radio stations across the country. Smith also has the most career rushing touchdowns on Thanksgiving with Longley rallied Dallas by capping off the comeback with a yard touchdown pass to Drew Pearson with 28 seconds left to edge Washington The Bears rallied from down to defeat the Lions in overtime behind Dave Williams' yard kickoff return.
It was the first overtime game on turkey day the OT period was instituted in The ChicagoBears tied the game on the final play of regulation. Then on the first play of overtime He collapsed the pocket all day. Then, in the fourth quarter, he scored the game's only touchdown. It's hard for a defensive player to leave as big of an imprint on a game as Lawrence Taylor did in this Thanksgiving clash with the Lions.
Cowboys defensive tackle Leon Lett inexplicably tried to recover a blocked game-winning field goal attempt. The ball was booted forward by Lett and recovered by the Dolphins at the 2-yard line. Miami connected on its next field goal attempt and won Barry Sanders and the Lions crushed the Bears , with Sanders rushing for yards and three touchdowns. His first big run of the fourth quarter didn't end so well.
So what did BarrySanders do? Bust another big run. Thanksgiving, Lions pic. Vikings rookie Randy Moss had only three catches, but all three went for plus-yard touchdowns in a win over the Cowboys. Three catches. Three TDs. The Cowboys passed on RandyMoss in the draft.
So when he took the field in Dallas on Thanksgiving of his rookie year, he ripped them up. That time Peyton threw more touchdowns 6 than incompletions 5 on Thanksgiving. Tom Brady finished with a perfect passer rating. Brady completed 21 of 27 passes for yards and four touchdowns in the Patriots' rout of the Lions. The Patriots actually trailed midway through the third quarter before Brady threw three touchdown passes -- of 79 and 22 yards to Deion Branch, and 16 yards to Wes Welker -- in a span of 13 minutes, 30 seconds.
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